Jack makes a toast

Upon spotting that the task brief is sealed inside a bubble, Jack sighs in exasperation. He then tears a hole into it with his hands to retrieve the envelope.

He makes no effort to delay the start of the task by using words starting with the letter ‘B’.

When Alex asks Jack whether he’s “into any particular types of bubbles”, Jack responds that he likes champagne. When Alex announces that they have champagne, Jack enthusiastically asks “Where? Where’s the champagne?”. He then demands that Alex bring it to him, along with some glasses.

When two bottles of champagne and an assortment of different glasses arrive in the dome, Jack observes that it is a vegan, non-alcoholic variety, then questions whether there is “any other way you can take fun out of champagne”.

Jack opens the bottles of champagne and pours it into the assorted glasses, asking Alex to distribute them among the members of the production crew who are present. After Jack suggests that they keep one glass for Greg, Alex asks which one he thinks he’d want, and Jack suggests that he’d probably want a pint glass.

Once champagne has been distributed to everyone in the crew, Jack makes a toast. While he’s doing this, one of the cameramen accidentally walks into Alex, and another crew member who is holding a tray of glasses in one hand drops one of the glasses, prompting show director Andy Devonshire to kick it onto the grass to prevent it smashing on the driveway.

In the studio, Greg notes how lovely it was for Jack to involve the crew, who he says work very hard on the show. Jack jumps in to say that the crew “never get anything, as they were saying to me earlier”, prompting Greg to claim that Alex refers to the crew members behind their backs as the “faceless facilitators of his genius” (thus coining the episode title).

Greg ultimately awards Jack 3 points for his toast.

(Written by Karl Craven and proofread by M3 / Andres Sanchez)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)